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On to the story!

Led Astray

Ansem had finished explaining my true origin. He was one of the last people next to Sephiroth who I thought would do that. Who would've guessed that me, a simple boy would have this much to do with his past. After we settled everything else, stuff from Sora and Riku still not trusting Ansem, to Raiku and his group, along with Daya, blasting questions at Ansem accusing him of still being "the evil man he still is". We convinced them all, after a few talks, some arguing, and a swear of loyalty from Ansem.

(I know he was on my side, but was the whole pledge of loyalty thing really necessary?)

Everyone else, even Mickey seemed to think so also. After that we all headed back to the hotel. Mickey and Ansem left for Disney Castle in a gummi ship. Before they left Ansem taught me how to retract and re-sprout my wings. I was successful in both, and the wings were gone, then back, and then gone again. I looked at Sora and Riku with a grin. No more wing jokes for those two. Raiku and his group headed to the Third District where they were staying. While we were in the corridor of the hotel I was thinking about the while Adept thing. The whole thing still boggled me a bit. I had to think it through slowly now that I had the time.

(So, born of darkness, then purified, then dropped on Earth where I grew to what I am now…)

We all said good-night and headed to our rooms. I changed out of my clothes. I noticed in the mirror that there were 2 fairly large scars on my back where my wings were. Guess that would be a sign that they're still there. I continued to think.

(After 13 years of living on Earth…13 long clueless years…)

I lay down in my bed, looking up to the ceiling and deep in thought. That's when I shot up from my bed after realizing something.

"If 13 years passed in my time, how long has it been since Sora defeated Ansem?"

I got out of bed and walked over to the door leading to the red room. Sora was staying there. I knocked twice on the door.

"Um, hey Sora you there?"

"Yeah, so what's up?"

"I just got a question"

"Ok, shoot"

"How long has it been since you defeated Ansem? The dark one I mean"

I didn't hear anything for a second. I saw the doorknob turn and I stepped back as it creaked open a little. Sora stuck his head out of the opening.

"It just happened like, a month ago. Why you askin?"

"Oh, just wanted to know. Thanks"

"Ok then, see ya tomorrow"

"Ok"

Sora closed the door and I walked back to my bed and sat down. Could his answer be entirely true?

(If he's right, then 13 years of my life passed here in just one month? Maybe Ansem and Mickey know something about that…)

I quickly forgot all about that when I laid myself down and drifted off to sleep.

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I awoke, but didn't open my eyes. I wanted to make sure Riku and everyone else was not trying to do what they did last time as a wake up call. I opened one eye a little bit and saw nobody in the room. I got up and changed into my clothes. I summoned my keyblades to check if they were there for safety, withdrew them and made my way out. I didn't hear anyone so I checked all the rooms. No sign of any of them.

(Where'd everyone go? Might as well use this to stretch my wings…)

I stepped outside and closed my eyes. I followed Ansem's advice and concentrated on the thought of my wings. I slowly felt them slowly move out of my back. After they were fully out, I spread them out. They shone in the morning sun as they did. I just noticed the fact that they were pretty long fully out. Each wing looked as long as my height. I flapped them once to get me off the ground, and then beat them continuously to give me some height until I could see the al the Districts from above. Then I flew over to the Third District. If felt good to be flying in the morning. The sun and cool air against my face. Felt so refreshing. While flapping my wings to keep me up, I looked down to see Azure waiting in front of the small house. I glided down to the small house and landed right by the door. The door opened and Raiku and Jymanea stepped out to greet me.

"So Adept, out for a morning flight ride?"

"Good morning Adept"

"Hey guys. Have any of you heard from Sora or anyone else?"

They all looked at each other and shook their heads. That was strange, where could they be. I flew up and hovered for a while.

"I'm gonna go check the First District. You guys search wherever you can and we'll meet back in the courtyard ok?"

They all gave me a nod and ran off to wherever they would go. I flew to the First District and started to look around. There were just townspeople, none of my friends. I circled around a bit more until I gave up and went back to the meeting place. Jymanea came back and said she didn't have any luck. Azure said she searched the whole Second District and said she could find any sign. Raiku said he checked with Merlin and the waterway but couldn't' find anything. We all got worried. Where could they be? They wouldn't just leave us without even leaving a note. We stood there thinking until we heard something whiz right past us. On the floor we saw an arrow, and tied to it was a piece of paper and a black feather. I plucked the arrow out and untied the note. The note read…

Dear Adept,

If you are looking for your friends, you won't find them here.

I've captured ALL of them and have them as my hostage.

If you wish to see them again, come to the home of the endless void, the End Of the World…

Sephiroth

I let the note fall and I felt my wings retract. I looked straight at the ground in sadness and anger. How could he have done this? Right in the middle of the night, but I would've noticed! Sora, Riku, hell, even Aerith would've put up a struggle that would wake up any person. Now they're all in his grasp. He might do the unthinkable to them, but what it it's a trap? What if this is just a ploy to lure me into a trap? While I thought this I felt a hand touch my shoulder. I looked up to see Jymanea in front of me. Her eyes showed signs of sadness and sympathy. I could see that she was trying to cheer me up.

"Don't worry, we'll get them back. We'll go and rescue them from that madman. We can do it!"

"But, what if it's a trap? What then? What if we go there and he's got a trap planned, and we go down trying to save them? I don't want anyone to get-"

I felt a swift slap hit my cheek. I put a hand to my cheek and I looked at the person who slapped me. It was Jymanea. She had a serious look on her face that I never saw out of her before. Raiku and Azure looked in shock at what had just happened. Jymanea looked like she was about to cry…

"Damn it stop worrying! We're gonna get them back! You have friends to help! You can't keep on trying to protect all of us! We can take care of ourselves too you know…"

She looked down so I couldn't see her eyes. But I could see a tear slide down her face. I couldn't help but realize the fact that she was right. Talk about a little bit of déjà vu…

(She's right…but this sounds all too familiar…what am I saying! Forget that! Now I have to pull myself together…but then again Maggie didn't slap me…)

I started to walk over to the doors leading to the First District. Halfway there I felt a hand twist me back around. It was Azure, and she looked like she was about to kill me.

"Now where do you think you're going?"

I pushed her hand off and continued my walk. Before turning the corner, I turned my head to them.

"Where else? I'm going to rescue my friends, with the help of my friends. You coming?"

I saw smiles on their faces and I felt a smile forming on mine. We made our way to the word exit. Sora left his gummi ship behind. But a few "alterations" were needed. I started to remove parts of it from the control center (A/N: Yes I know the gummi garage is in space. Well this is my idea of world landing areas having "repair shop" like stations. Deal with it people who don't like my ideas!) We were going to the End Of The World. Heartless ships there don't play nice there. I knew we could take the warp hole but the End Of The World is heavily guarded. I explained this to them and they completely understood.

I gave the ship 3 Holy-G engines in the back, a full body shield, outfitted the ship with 4 of every weapon, (A/N: Yes again I know this isn't possible. Just keep reading…) gave it 2 Haste2-G gummis so we could make the trip quicker and for the fact that if we had to do a quick escape, these would help us. I replaced the old cockpit with a Full-Life-G. That would help us out greatly if we hit a snag. I put another one in so 2 others could man the guns also and be support. (A/N: If you have no idea what this looks like, build one for yourself! Of course some things won't be available but use your imagination!) We boarded the ship. I took main pilot and manning thrusters. Raiku took co-pilot, radar watch, and ship status. Azure and Jymanea were in the second cockpit manning all the weapons. All of us had headphones on for radio chat. We were about to be given the signal to take off. We all were nervous but anxious to get this over with. I held down my left earphone to activate the radio.

"Me and Raiku are ready. What about you two back there?"

The radio crackled for a moment. I heard Azure respond.

"We're both ready"

"Ok, counting down launch in 10 seconds…10…9…8…7…"

We all gripped our controls. This had to be a successful rescue. I continued the countdown.

"6...5…4…3…2…1…"

"JUST PUSH THE IGNITION!"

That's what I heard everyone yell in my ears.

(Sheesh, can't you people wait!)

I slammed down on the ignition button. The engines activated and we shot out of Traverse Town. I quickly swerved the ship to the right. We were heading to the warphole. I kept the ship steady as we neared the warphole. It would take a hard fight just to get there alive. We entered it and we only saw white. When we regained our sight I felt Raiku tap me on the shoulder.

"I think you should look at this…"

I turned my chair and looked at the radar. A mile ahead was a whole fleet of heartless ships. I gulped as I turned on the radio to tell Azure and Jymanea the news.

"Hey girls, I think you should get ready with those guns. We got the welcoming committee in front of us."

This time I heard Jymanea respond for them.

"Don't worry; we got the first few locked in our sights. But what're you gonna do to get us through it?"

I thought for a second. Exactly how was I going to get us through that wall? I gave her the only answer I can think of.

"We're gonna run and blast through it"

"What are you crazy? We can't run through that whole fleet of-"

"Hey, wasn't it you that said for me to stop worrying and let us help each other?"

The radio went silent for a moment until she came back.

"Yeah whatever, but just remember who slapped who"

She said the last part in a sing-song fashion that made me open my mouth to speak, but I shut it realizing that she had a point. Everyone laughed at that. I let out a small chuckle and shook my head.

(She's got quite an unpredictable attitude…maybe I should re-think what I thought before about the height thing…)

"Hey, if you two are done, we're about to collide with the fleet here"

I looked ahead to see that Raiku was right. I put my hand on the button to activate the thrusters.

"Everybody ready?"

"Yep"

"Go for it"

"Let's get this over with"

I hit the ignition and we shot right into the fleet. The ship began to shake from hitting multiple heartless ships. I could see and hear Azure and Jymanea go nuts with the weapons. The wall was longer than I thought. I needed to check on our status.

"Raiku how're we holding up?"

"Hull at 70 and steadily falling, Power at 5 out of 12 bars, boosters still going, and by the looks of it this wall never ends!"

"Damn, what to do...Jymanea, Azure, report!"

"Everywhere we shoot we're hitting something, how much longer till we get outta here?"

"This is getting so annoying….."

The ship continued to shake. Raiku told me that if we keep this up, we'll be torn to shreds. I needed something to blast a hole for us through…

(What….what….I GOT IT!)

I put my hands out to face the heartless ships. I made it look like I was shoving something out of my way. I saw heartless ships go sailing and the End Of The World in plain view.

"There! Divert all power to thrusters! We're going in!"

I hit the button and we were sent flying at almost warp speed. We shot out of the wall and I started to let the ship cruise around the world. I looked at Raiku. His face was relieved, but it looks like he just saw a ghost face to face. I tapped my earphone to contact Jymanea and Azure.

"Is…everyone ok back there?"

All that was heard was radio static till we heard Azure's voice.

"We're both ok, just a bit shaken. You're crazy you know that?"

"I'm just glad we're all ok, now let's disembark!"

Raiku pulled up the computer and told me the list of landing points.

"Pick the Final Rest"

We landed and appeared in the small oasis that was the Final Rest. I looked through the heartless symbol shaped hole to see many figures pinned up to the wall. It was our friends. We jumped through and without hesitation, started to free them. Sephiroth was right when he said he got all of them. Sora, Riku, Daya, Cloud, Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Cid, and even Huey, Dewey and Louie! We untied all of them but the seemed more eager to go than to see us. Sora started to run back to where we were dropped off.

"We need to go back! Who knows what he could've done by now!"

Azure grabbed Sora and started to shake him.

"Sora! Tell us what's going on!"

Sora gulped and calmed his breathing. We let him explain.

"You shouldn't have come. This was just a diversion!"

We all were shocked to hear that. I took Sora by the shoulders and started to shake him.

"Who? What? What do you mean?"

"Sephiroth used us as a distraction to get us all out of Traverse Town. He's gonna destroy it!"

"WHAT?"

It was true. Halfway across the worlds, Sephiroth stood in the First District. Ready to begin his destruction.

"Now, to use my ultimate attack to the fullest!"

He raised his hand over his head and said the two words that would seal Traverse Town's fate.

"Sin Harvest Desac 100!"

While the horror began, we were rushing through space. All of us unaware of knowing the danger we would have to face when we returned…

End Chapter

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Oh and Desac is in Al Bhed. Translate it and you'll see that its simple really.

Gaming quote of the chapter: "Are you kidding me? We fought all thos gaurds to meet the almighty 'Shadow' and what we see is old log-on-the-head gandpa green?"-Daxter, Jak 2